Wenslauw <wenslauw@xs4all.nl> wrote:

> On 2005-06-27, Louise Bremner <dame_zumari@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Ryan Ginstrom <ryan@ginstrom.com> wrote:
[...]
> >> That "Austria" bit is kind of a group in-joke, but there's
> >> no reason for you to have known that.
> >
> > It's fairly common throughout Usenet, I believe--not just
> > in this little patch of not-quite-Usenet. I frequent other
> >  groups where it's used.
> It's also fairly common outside of the Internet, I think.
> At least in the US.

Ah, yes... but there it's neither an "in joke" nor any other kind of
joke. More a kind of religious statement, perhaps...

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